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Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images By Zachariah Blott Advanced statistics is one area that baseball is lightyears ahead of basketball. Bottom Line: How Sports Leagues Crack The Whip On ESPN. I can understand ESPN caving and ending the show, but I can't understand them wussing out of allowing another network to take it over.
Playmakers on HBO would have been an amazing show. There is no balls, and then there is NO BALLS. ESPN is worst, I had no idea they were actively making the rest of TV worse too. I am surprised they arent trying to make HBO cancel Hard Knocks. Aaron Hernandez: Patriots Tight End Violent Evolution. From middle school, Hernandez had his sights set on UConn, and committed there as a star at Bristol Central.
I want a sports talk show. Dear Andre Drummond - TrueHoop Blog. Detroit Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski Again Proves Why He's Among MLB's Best. They are riverboat gamblers dressed in Armani.
They are playing with company money, corporate assets. Their cell phones burn hotter than a California brush fire. The 5 Ballsiest Ways Fans Have Affected The Outcome of Games. #2.
A Fan Grabs a Football Player Mid-Play and Tries to Rip His Head Off Brand X Pictures/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images When the Arena Football League was created in 1987, several ideas were implemented to differentiate it from the NFL -- for instance, the half-size field allowed for higher scores and faster action, and the tiny arenas were a great cover for how little the public gave a shit.
Also, there was no "out of bounds" area -- the fans were right up against the field, separated from the players only by a low wall: Via kansas_city_royaltyThis is what we call "foreshadowing. " Triple Crown or no, Miguel Cabrera's 2013 is special. Cabrera doesn't need to win an MVP or secure a Triple Crown for his season to be historic.
Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown and the AL MVP award in 2012. That combination easily identifies that his was a special season, as no one had won a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski did in 1967, and taking home the MVP award over uber-rookie Mike Trout only furthered the idea that his 2012 was a unique snowflake of a year. Don't worry, you don't need to switch tabs or close out your window in order to avoid a discussion of who deserved the MVP award last year -- those arguments have been made, for both sides, and no one needs to relive that torture again regardless of whether you're Team Trout or Team Cabby.
However, one thing that should be pointed out is that Cabrera's 2012, historically, wasn't all that great, despite the accolades. Cabrera is hitting .366/.459/.692 in 109 games this season. Photo credit: The Star-Ledger-USA TODAY Sports. Andre Drummond’s Summer of Love. 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. AL MVP revisted: Value of Speed and Defense - Backgrinder. In case you missed it, this guy won the AL MVP last year:
Mike Trout Swing Analysis. Mike Trout's Ridiculous Encore Performance. Last year, Mike Trout was the best player in baseball (even if voters and players disagreed).
His was one of the best rookie seasons of all time, ranking with Dwight Gooden’s off-the-charts ’85 campaign as one of the best efforts ever for a player in his age-20 season. All of that is yesterday’s news. In many ways, Trout’s even better in 2013 than he was in his ludicrous 2012 season. On this, his 22nd birthday, he’s on the verge of making history. Again. Trout made his 2012 debut on April 28. Mike Trout's Ridiculous Encore Performance. Trout and Cabrera: Here We Go Again. Last year, the AL MVP debate turned into something resembling a culture war, with Miguel Cabrera representing the traditional methods of player evaluation while Mike Trout was the darling of the sabermetric community.
In the final tally, Cabrera won in a landslide, receiving 22 of the 28 first place votes, but Trout and Cabrera were #1 and #2 on 27 of the 28 ballots submitted, with Trout sliding to third on just one ballot. Welcome To Atlanta - Michigan Wolverines Final Four 2013. Dunking > Tanking: All Hail the Pistons. We thought the NBA offseason was over, we thought it was time to move on to football, we thought Brandon Jennings was going spend the rest of his prime in NBA limbo like Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
Detroit and Milwaukee are nearing a sign-and-trade agreement to send Brandon Jennings to the Pistons, league sources tell Y! Sports.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 30, 2013. NBA draft 2014: Andrew Wiggins leads loaded class - NBA - Chris Mannix. Andrew Wiggins, who will play at Kansas this fall, is considered the top prospect in the 2014 NBA draft. Robin Alam/Icon SMI Is it June yet? It's a thought that has passed through the minds of several NBA executives already, most likely ones from teams destined to have lousy seasons. NBA draft 2014: Andrew Wiggins leads loaded class - NBA - Chris Mannix. Dunking > Tanking: All Hail the Pistons. Brandon for Brandon: What Does the Jennings-Knight Deal Really Mean for Detroit and Milwaukee? Steve Nash makes a request on Rap City (1994, Muchmusic) Eagles WR Riley Cooper At Concert: "I Will Fight Every Nigger Here"
The "hard R" doesn't make a fucking bit of difference. Michael Kruse on Nike and the success of Oregon football. There is next to no reason the University of Oregon should have a good football team. Eugene is a small city and is not near a major media market, there’s very little local college-caliber talent, and for literally 100 years the Ducks did almost nothing but lose. But the past decade and a half has been different. They’ve been to the Rose Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, and last year’s national championship game, and they will start this season Saturday night against Louisiana State in Arlington, Texas, ranked third in the country. Oregon, Nike And The Future Of College Football. Yeah, you know about the jerseys. But take a closer look at Oregon football and Nike, and what's really turned the Ducks into a powerhouse over the past 15 years.
Have you ever been to South Bend, Indiana? It's the hallowed home of Notre Dame, yes, but on the ground it seems like less a college town utopia than a lifeless rest stop of a community with a college dropped in the middle. Pearltrees Extension.